10 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS! INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST ACTOR, BEST DIRECTOR

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Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost… Starring Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Felicity Jones (Rogue One), Guy Pearce (Memento). Directed by Brady Corbet.

It is impossible not to recognise The Brutalist as anything other than a filmmaking triumph. -London Evening Standard

Brody and Pearce vividly manifest Corbet’s arguments about the clash between art and money, between the old world and the new. When they are blazing away on screen together, The Brutalist swells to epic size. -Vanity Fair

The movie announces itself as a modern epic and goes on to earn that gilded frame. You’re dead certain that at some point, someone must have come up with the elevator pitch that this is “Citizen Kane” from the perspective of Xanadu’s interior designer. -Los Angeles Times

Tóth, played with deep soul and unrelenting intensity by Adrien Brody in “The Brutalist,” is actually fictional, though you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, so richly realized is his story in director Brady Corbet’s audacious new film. -Associated Press

A movie to stare at and ponder, an imposing creation with “a hard core of beauty” as someone says of Tóth’s minimalist masterpieces. -Toronto Star

It’s a film that turns inward into itself, winding its themes around its characters like a great American novel. -Rogerebert.com

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